From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbrownstonebrown‧stone /ˈbraʊnstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable]TBB a house in the US with a front made of reddish-brown stone, common in New York City
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brownstone• I hated her because she was rich and lived in a big brownstone up near Stevens Institute of Technology.• Soon the neat stores were replaced by faded brownstones and tumbledown colonial houses.• To Katherine, a New Yorker, used to apartment blocks and intimate brownstones, it was trebly impressive.• Her building on Seventy-eighth turned out to be an Italianate brownstone closer to First than Second.• It was there as soon as she passed through the doors of their East Side brownstone.• I had stared over the famous landscape: the three bridges, the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights.• He was surprised how unimposing the brownstone looked now.• And now Ralph spent whole evenings admiring Pinkus's house, a handsome three-window-wide brownstone on a clean street. 